Shay stirred slightly drawing Gaara's attention back to her. His question about what Naruto was up too dying on his tongue as her eyes fluttered open and she looked at him as Naruto twisted his position around and got on his knees so that he could see her too. "Shay."

"What happened to you?" Naruto asked curiously, beating Gaara to the punch and earning a dirty look from the Kage as Iruka grabbed Genma's wrist and pulled him over to the bed and used his hand to force the man's jaw closed. Hissing something about him needing to shut his mouth before he drowned them all in his drool, as Shay looked around for a second then looked back at Gaara and Naruto and frowned, trying to recall what exactly had happened to her.

She remembered being outside, hanging up her laundry, singing her favorite childhood song and all of a sudden it had felt so hard for her to breathe-

She had started shaking, her legs buckled and then... She didn't recall anything after that.

Had she lost consciousness? Had she fallen and hit her head? Why the fuck couldn't she remember? And why did she feel as if her heart was breaking? She felt someone's hand brush her hair back and blinked up at Gaara and Naruto's faces as her vision blurred and a few tears slipped down her face and lifted her hands to cover her face for a second as she tried to calm herself down and stop crying.

Missing the alarmed looks on Gaara and Naruto's faces before Iruka pushed them back away from her and the bed and told them to sit down somewhere out of the way. Both teens bristled a little bit, their protective instincts kicking in and causing them to fuss with the chunin for a second before deciding to go outside after Iruka threatened to stab them both in the butt with a kunai.

But neither teen took offense, while the school teacher pushed Genma down in the corner out of the way then made his way back over to the bed dismissing them from his mind completely as they slipped out of the tent.

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The second that Gaara and Naruto were out of the tent, the Kage grabbed his friend and dragged him fifteen or twenty feet from the tent and asked, "What are you up too Naruto?"

Naruto blinked at the red head and fought the urge to should have known that of all the people to figure him out (outside of Shay that is) then Gaara would be the one to figure out that he was up to something. "I'm not up to anything...much."

Gaara gave him a dirty look. "Much? What exactly does your definition of 'much' entail, Naruto?"

The blond shrugged his shoulders. Not exactly sure about how to answer him. "Nothing really, Kakashi's the one who started this damn mess- I'm just taking responsibility for what he started." Gaara's left eye twitched a little bit.

"What mess?"

"Control your temper red, I'll tell you when I'm ready. All you need to know is that if things work out you'll be an uncle-" Naruto stopped talking and paled slightly as soon as the word 'uncle' seemed to sink into Gaara's mind. The Kage's reaction to the word was damn freaky.

He got all sparkly.

And creepy.

Like Gai...

It should be against the law for people to look this creepy. Naruto thought warily as Gaara grabbed him by the front of his jacket and said in a rush, "I'll be an uncle? Really? Really? Do you know how much I would love that? Will I have a niece? A nephew? How old will he/she be-" Gaara shook Naruto a little bit and snarled. "Why the hell aren't you telling me anything?"

"O-Okay...F-Fine... I-I-I'll t-tell-" Naruto stuttered as his head snapped back and forth on his neck as he was shaken violently by his adoptive brother. He'd tell the red head anything he wanted to know as long as he stopped shaking him. Gaara stopped shaking him but didn't let him go.

Probably a good thing since Naruto doubted he would have been able to stand without help after being shaken like that. Naruto sighed and wondered if telling Gaara his plan for Kakashi's bad joke was the right thing to do.

"Well it's like this, Kakashi told Iruka that Shay's having my baby. Iruka didn't believe me when I said he was lying. Genma heard us talking and that's why hes currently useless and Iruka was demanding for me to ask Shay to marry me which got me to thinking- She's pretty soft on the eyes. And sharp for a civilian. And I haven't seen her with anyone that we might think is the father. And I'd like to settle down with a sensible girl and have a few kids... So maybe if Shay doesn't mind. I could be the baby's dad in every sense of the word..."

Garra blinked and slowly let him go then got all creepy sparkly again and Naruto shuddered and wished that he was blind as Gaara grasped his hands in his own and said. "I have the perfect cover story to support your claim-"

"Wha?"

"You and Shay met a bout a month ago- You liked each other then you both decided to do a little drinking to unwind one night. One thing led to another and you were both a bit embarrassed about falling into bed with each other. Yet now that you've met again and she is carrying your child. You wish to start over from the beginning and take things slowly and truly get to know the mother of your child. But because of the Akutsuki threat and the secluded area in which she lived, you felt the need to move her to someplace safe which was how she came to be in Sauna."

Naruto's jaw dropped as Gaara turned around and looked at him while he rubbed his hands together like a mad man the expression on his face sending chills down Naruto's spine. Oh god he'd just stupidly unleashed a monster. Hadn't he?